PARAM
INTERNATIONAL'S Pad printing began to take over the market shares (over hot
stamping and screen printing) in printing areas where other methods showed their
limits or could not be used altogether. Pad printing is also known as tampon printing
In Europe and in many other parts of world. Pad printing is becoming more and
more important nowadays. Nearly all known materials can be pad printed. Pad printing
is an indirect gravure or an offset printing process where a 2-d image is transferred
with the help of soft silicon pad onto a 3-d product surface. There are three
different types of pad printing machines available with Param Interantional: | | » | MANUAL
PAD PRINTER | » |
ELECTRO-MECHANICAL PAD PRINTERS | » | PNEUMATIC
PAD PRINTERS |
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International manufactures automated Pad printing machinery and equipment which
are loaded with time and money saving features. Pad printing is used for printing
on otherwise impossible products in many industries including hardware , hand
tools , medical , automotive, promotional, electrical, electronics, appliances,
sports equipments, toys , surgical , sanitary ,wire and cables , hose pipes ,
plastic industry. The unique properties of the silicone pad enable to pick the
image up from a flat surface and transfer it to variety of surface (i.e flat,
cylindrical, spherical, compound angle, textures, concave surfaces, convex surfaces).
For example: | | | » | Printing
irregular shapes and surfaces, convex, concave, curbed , recessed and some discontinuous
surfaces | » | Printing
complicated substrates at a reasonable speed | » | Printing
of fine detailed images, words, logos, graphics | » | Offering
the printer an enormous versatility of doing various jobs on one pad printer | » | High
quality printing on irregular surfaces thousands of different products and Pad
printing is able to print shapes and surfaces of different products which are
not in the capabilities of screen printing and hot stamping | » | Allows
wet-on-wet multi colour printing on many non-absorbant surfaces which reduces
the production time | » | It
is relatively very less expensive printing system particularly for multi colour
and process colour printing | » | Pad
printing is having the ability to print very very fine details. Its resolution
is far better that of screen printing | » |
Pad printing is very easy to learn as compared to other printing processes. It
can be handled very easily and needs very little maintenance | » | For
printing different designs for different jobs our machines needs least time for
the plates and inks to be exchanged | » | Pad
printing needs very low space for installation than many other printing processes. |
| | | | TYPICAL
APPLICATIONS | | There
are thousands of applications you can do such like :-- | » | Electronic
components such as switches , resistances , cables, connectors, IC chips, relays
, etc. | » | Industrial
switches and Keys as found on Mobiles, Palmtops , I-pods , calculators, telephones
and computer keyboards. | » | Electrical
Household Appliances such as press iron, dvd's , cd's , dvd players , tube chokes,
electrical switches ,Lcd-Led tv's, coffee pots, telephones , etc. | » |
Large Industrial Appliance panels such as on Mixer grinders , dishwashers, washing
machines and dryers | » | Toys
such as twisters , dolls, cars, infant bottles, cards , rattles and night lights. | » | Advertising
Specialty Items like pens, lighters, key chains, clocks, watch dials ,etc. | » | Sporting
Goods such as golf balls, cricket balls , table tennis balls , kicking tee's ,
hurdles , shin pads , wooden wickets , small bats , hockeys , badminton rackets
, gloves , baseballs, tennis rackets , footballs | » | Medical
devices (surgical instruments , tweezers , forceps etc.) | » | Hand
tools items , hammers , pliers . spanners , wrenches , grease guns , etc | » | Automotive
parts (different auto black parts and painted items) | » | Numeric
or alphanumeric alphabets on Lakhs of items. | » | Computer
monitors , data cards , data cables , chargers | » | Date
of price , expiry date , Identification labels and serial numbers for many applications | » | Sanitary
items , taps , sink pipes . kitchenware , hardwares like handles , knobs. |
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there are two different types of systems in every Pad printing Technology. One
is traditional Open Inkwell System and other being the newer and much more widely
accepted Sealed(closed) Cup System. | | | OPEN
INKWELL SYSTEM (OLDER TECHNOLOGY) | | Open
inkwell system use a trough (ink well) for ink located behind the printing plate.
A metal or plastic rod pushes a pool of ink over the plate, and a steel blade
removes the ink from the plate surface, leaving ink on the etched artwork area
ready for the pad to pickup and transfer on the product. the major benefit of
open inkwell technology is that the machines are flexible in application and economically
provide large image capacity i.e. you can print more big image on a substrate.
| | | PARAM
INTERNATIONAL'S SEALED INK CUP SYSTEM (LATEST TECHNOLOGY) | Sealed
ink cup system is with a sealed container (ink cup) which acts as ink supply and
storage , flood bar and doctor blade all in one. A steel ring with a highly polished
working edge provides the seal against the printing plate.
For pad printing
process you need | » | Pad
Printing machines | » | Steel
Plate (cliché) with designs to be printed laser etched on it. | » | A
Silicon Pad | » | Printing
Ink |
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